The Obituaries Thread

[AphoticScourge]

I've got a golden ticket for a trip to his Choco factory :/

I regret to inform that it is now voided.

 

Rest in peace, Mr.Wilder.

[Selfsurprise]

This might be of only niche interest to many of you, but back in June Tom Leppard (better known by his moniker the "Leopard Man of Skye") died of natural causes at the age of 80.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-36537234

[AP_Pastor]

It's a bit late, but for Sound of Music lovers here: Charmian Carr, the actress who portrayed Liesl, passed away.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37403372

[Selfsurprise]

Sad to have just discovered that the American painter Shirley Jaffe died a few days ago. She began her career and developed in the abstract expressionist zeitgeist of late-forties to fifties in her home country, but during the sixties developed a more colourfully geometric yet rigorously "flattened" style which she later became celebrated for. Looking at her work from that decade now, it's quite evident that she had sidestepped the more thunder-browed and overtly spiritual insistences of other abstract contemporaries. The art critic Holland Cotter perhaps summed-up her talents best by stating that she “makes painting look like fastidiously worked joy.” She died aged 92.

 

“You go to a museum and you hear somebody explaining the painting only in verbal and literary terms. They are never saying, Look, look at what that artist did! It’s deplorable to me. Even when they look at a Goya or a Velazquez, they don’t see the humor that the artist might have had in the way he placed the little dog or the cat. People are not sensitized to what pleasure they can have visually.” - Shirley Jaffe

 

Long Black, oil on canvas (1965-66)

 

Pise, oil on canvas (2003)

[Selfsurprise]

Yet another beloved yet obscure celebrity that I alone probably care about apparently kicked the bucket yesterday. The English actress Jean Alexander, best known for playing Hilda Ogden in Coronation Street but later in life cherished as Auntie Wainwright in the sitcom Last of the Summer Wine, the acquisitive and pushy junk shop owner of the programs village of Holmfirth setting.

[Selfsurprise]

It's not been a good week for numerous heros of mine. Learned this morning that Pete Burns, gender-bending frontman of the band Dead or Alive (who wrote the new wave pop hit You Spin Me Round), died a couple of days ago from a heart attack. I've also gathered that Junko Tabei, Steve Dillon and Mary Sheriff also shuffled their mortal coils over the last ten days of so. The first being a Japanese mountaineer who was the first woman to reach Everest's summit, the second being an English comic illustrator known for his work 2000 AD and Marvel, and the third being an American art historian and feminist writer who wrote one of my favourite books Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France.

 

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[Psychotic Ninja]

It's not been a good year for numerous heros of everyone.

 

Much better.

 

Speaking of which, one I've been meaning to post for a couple of months now, but, I keep on forgetting to do so, until now: Jack Riley, better known as Stu Pickles died in August 19, 2016.

 

There's also C. Martin Croker, voice of Zorak in Space Ghost Coast to Coast, who died in September 17, 2016.

[AP_Pastor]

^Now that just makes me sadder.

[Vapymid]

Well, there leaves another one...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37946654

 

RIP, Leonard Cohen...

 

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"An old woman gave us shelter

Kept us hidden in the garret

Then the soldiers came

She died without a whisper"

 

Regards

[Selfsurprise]

“As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.” ― Leonard Cohen, The Favourite Game

 

2016 is turning out to be a giant pile of bollocks.

[AP_Pastor]

As if losing Leonard Cohen isn't enough. Leon Russell's gone too.

 

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I declare 2016 annus horribilis

[AP_Pastor]

Forgive the double post, but I just have to post this:

 

This pic alone is an obituary in itself.

[Jeb_CC]

XD Aw. RIP Toblerone. Your normal sizing will be missed.

[Psychotic Ninja]

Finally, a memorial image thingy, that doesn't have Harambe, especially as the focus.

[AP_Pastor]

^Wait til you see the comments.

[Selfsurprise]

Forgive the double post, but I just have to post this:

 

 

 

This pic alone is an obituary in itself.

 

An excellent (yet soul-crushingly despairing) surmisation of the utter pile of wank 2016 has been.

[Psychotic Ninja]

R.I.P. Ron Glass.

[Selfsurprise]

Michael James Delligatti, Creator of the Big Mac, Dies at 98

 

 

That's it. 2016 is now objectively and officially terrible.

[Psychotic Ninja]

Michael James Delligatti, Creator of the Big Mac, Dies at 98

 

 

That's it. 2016 is now objectively and officially terrible.

 

[AP_Pastor]

A few months ago, I posted somewhere about Keith Emerson's death. Guess Keith now has another musician to jam with, because news just came out that the Greg Lake, the L of ELP, is gone. While

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXCEdrnaFlY, I don't want to believe he's gone.